State and Local Initiatives to Increase Housing Supply
JPMorganChase PolicyCenter finds regulation adds roughly 40 percent to multifamily costs, and maps zoning and permitting reforms that increase housing supply.
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JPMorganChase PolicyCenter finds regulation adds roughly 40 percent to multifamily costs, and maps zoning and permitting reforms that increase housing supply.
How State and Local Governments are taking practical steps to build and finance more affordable rental housing.
JPMorganChase's new policy brief lays out three practical building blocks — zoning reform, modern codes, and faster permitting — to boost affordable supply.
A well-meaning Senate proposal would force investors to sell build-to-rent communities after seven years — but it misreads how these developments actually work.
How Davis-Bacon wage mandates, skilled labor shortages, and immigration policy are increasing multifamily development costs and constraining workforce housing production
Market insights from Paul Fiorilla and Jacob Gonzalez at Yardi Matrix on how market-rate and affordable rents compete differently across metros.
Beyond the federal gridlock, state and local governments in New York, Florida, and California are quietly making rental housing more affordable.
Mission-driven owners are partnering with local governments to convert aging market-rate buildings into affordable housing, faster and cheaper than new construction.
Buildable land is now scarce and expensive everywhere, even in rural America. Public land could be the overlooked key to more affordable housing.
Affordable multifamily deliveries will peak in 2025, and then things will get bleak. Here's what Yardi Matrix's new database reveals about what's next.
Labor costs jumped more than 12% in a single year and now eat up 25 to 40% of development budgets. Here's what can be done to ease the pressure.
Reducing the actual cost of building housing, not just adding more subsidy, is the real fix needed to close the nation's affordable housing supply gap.